News This Week at www.radioheritage.net
VOA Hicksville NY Emil Voigt 2KY Sydney serial #1 Emil Voigt 2KY Sydney serial #2 Other recent additions RNZI 'Sentimental Journey' documentary VOA Hicksville NY [1] Adrian Peterson's latest column visits the giant VOA transmitting facility at Hicksville, Long Island NY. Originally built by Press Wireless International, the site often relayed local WOR-AM New York City and was well heard across the Pacific. Included in the story are images of a 1940 QSL card from W2XGB Hicksville, and one of the 40kW transmitters later used to broadcast VOA, AFRS, NBC and Mutual networks and WLW-AM Cincinnati OH programs around the world. Emil Voigt 2KY Sydney #1 [2] Emil Voigt 2KY #1 is the first of a five part series tracing the life of the founder of 2KY Sydney, the world's first trade union radio station. Written by his granddaughter, the series reveals a socialist idealist, political organizer, radio manager, engineer and Olympic Gold champion who moved between England, Australia and the USA in the first 25 years of the 20th century. In Part #1, his athletics career and his 1908 London Olympics gold medal for the 5 Mile event. Emil Voigt 2KY Sydney #2 [3] Emil Voigt 2KY #2 continues the story with his involvement with the socialist Clarion Movement in England, connections with Bernard Shaw and HG Wells, and Emil's move to Australia where he joined the NSW Labor Council. In 1923, he moved to Santa Monica CA and became fascinated with how radio was being used in the USA. He planned his return to Australia two years later, anxious to persuade union bosses to open their own radio station in Sydney. Diggers On Air [4] Other very recent additions to www.radioheritage.net include: 'Diggers on Air' a guide to nearly 50 radio stations operated by the Australian military towards the end of WWII across the SW Pacific, SE Asia and Japan; '2KY Raids Sydney from the Air' a painting used to promote the station in 1938; and more images from our new series of 'Long Lost Radio Images'. PAL Shortwave Radio Guide NEW [5] The new PAL Shortwave Radio Guide is now online with 1600+ stations listed. Currently this can be searched, and a downloadable version available shortly with new season frequency changes. The PAL Mediumwave Radio Guide with 4600+ stations has been updated and is both searchable and downloadable now. The New Zealand AM @ a Glance Radio Guide has also been revised. Coming Soon: HCJB 75th Anniversary Series #1 7HO Hobart Long Lost Australian Radio Stars Radio Heritage Documentary NEW 'Sentimental Journey' available to download and listen now at Radio NZ International web site: www.rnzi.com. Visit 'other audio' and Mailbox and click on latest [April 2] version. Doco includes rare audio with ID's of long gone Pacific stations 3DB Melbourne, 2XS Palmerston North, 3AK Melbourne Italian experiment, Aotearoa Radio [NZ] and WVUV 1120 American Samoa. David Ricquish Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.net ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
